Indigenising American Spirituality
The Case of Dariush Mehrjui's Appropriation of Salinger'sFranny and Zooey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fazel Asadi Amjad (0000-0003-3600-1008, Kharazmi University, corresponding author), Morteza Yazdanjoo (0000-0002-1815-9218, Kharazmi University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 431-447 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2021.1947739 |
| OpenAlex | W3210649093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Despite the emergence of insightful scholarship in Iranian cinema in the twenty-first century, there is a paucity of critical studies on the crossroad between cinema and national identity, particularly how the latter is constructed, (re)inscribed, and refashioned through the structures of feeling the former concocts. A particular case in point is the directorial oeuvre of Dariush Mehrjui, an auteur whose feature films play a vital role in nurturing and (re)fashioning national identity on the silver screen. This article examines the projection of a distinct national identity in Pari (1995), an adaptation of Salinger’s Franny and Zooey. It builds upon the nexus between national identity and cinema, theoretically advanced by Michael Billig and Tim Edensor, to delineate the articulation of an alternative ‘Iranian-ness’ texture in Iranian cinema. Pari, a quest-driven narrative in which the protagonist abdicates material life to achieve spiritual salvation, is an interpellative dream-text serving to espouse how the refashioned national identity should be conceived and emulated
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Drama · Dream · Epistemology · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture
The sixties
National Belonging and Everyday Life
Directory of World Cinema
The Poetic Mysticism of Jalal Al‐din Rumi
Mehrjui's Social Comedy and the Representation of the Nation in the Age of Globalization
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
The Absurd Hero in American Fiction
Everyday Nationhood
From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
Putting the Nation in the News
Radical Innocence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |